Mission Activist Speaks Out against Honduran Coup

Forty years ago the Mission District was alive with revolution. Streets teemed with demonstrators and the 24th Street Bart station became known as Plaza Sandino–a gathering place for revolutionaries opposed to the Military dictatorship of Nicaraguan president, Anastasio Somoza.

Alejandro Murguia, a poet and professor, was at the forefront of these movements, and this summer, after the June 28 coup of Hondruan President Manuel Zelaya, he was again busy organizing protests. This time, however, he was on the same side as the U.S government. Read more.